Summary
Zachary Zhou is a Software Engineer II at Meta with a decade of engineering experience focused on privacy-aware mobile infrastructure and encrypted backups for Messenger on iOS. He brings production experience from an AWS CloudHSM internship and a strong research background in biomedical data analysis and image-based algorithm development from Johns Hopkins, where he also mentored students as Head Course Assistant. Zachary combines backend API development and secure systems work with hands-on data science and MATLAB/ImageJ tool creation, a blend that helps him bridge applied research and product-grade engineering. Based in Seattle, he’s comfortable shipping at scale in agile teams and has a track record of turning complex privacy and cryptography-adjacent requirements into practical implementations.
10 years of coding experience